So it was Monday, and not a very eventful day I guess. Slept in a bit, went to acupuncture, had Christmas with Chris’ parents finally, blah blah blah. It wasn’t quite a case of the Mondays, but sort of felt like that.
We had to get ready rather quickly, and I knew I didn’t have time to eat my oatmeal at work before acupuncture, so I ate it while getting our food ready for the day.
I think the new cinnamon I bought tastes a little different…not quite sure what it is, but it just seems a little bit off.
Acupuncture was intense. I went in not thinking I had many problems (elbow, knee, shoulders just slightly off), but I was quite the pincushion today. Randy put needles a little deeper in my traps to induce fatigue and make them relax. They were indeed fatigued today and sore. He used a balancing approach today more than anything, which involves treating the energy channels related to the problems. For example, my TMJ is on the gall bladder channel that runs on the side of the legs, so he put needles in the side of my legs. My knee was hurting a little, which is on the liver that runs down the arms as well, so he put needles in my arms. Other than the traps my body felt great today 🙂
I wasn’t that hungry when lunch time rolled around, but I ate a little anyway of the standard fare:
When my hunger returned I had the rest of the apple and some chips. Then it came back again and I had the rest of the cottage cheese. No pics since that would be a tad redundant.
I had some tea and lots of water this afternoon as I spent like two hours trying to de-bug my computer. McAfee kept finding a rootkit issue over the last week and deleting it, but it keeps coming back. Internet Explorer kept encountering errors and needing to close, so I wasn’t able to get very far on any of my online applications. Fucking thing wouldn’t even go to a restore point. WTF. I’m not sure what to do at this point. I was trying to download AVG today since I heard good things from a coworker, but the installation process kept freezing 😐 Boo. Hopefully tomorrow brings solutions since I need to use the damn thing for some work due in the afternoon.
That’s my little food and workout journal in the foreground. I remembered an insulated mug for tea at the office! No more wasted cups 🙂 Anyhow, moving on…
Chris’ parents were coming over for dinner, and we decided on Godfather’s Pizza, so I called in the order this afternoon and ran to get it when we got home around 5:40. The smell of it in the car was absolute torture on the way home! Oh so good! I didn’t photograph anything as I ate tonight…didn’t really want to explain the whole blog thing for some reason. I took pics afterward.
Dinner went pretty well, the pizza was okay, and all in all the night ended fine. My pizza was a medium thin crust Hawaiian light on the cheese and with black olives added. Good, but would have been better fresher (traffic held up the parents). I had three pieces; I looked up the nutritional info online beforehand and knew each one had about 190 cals. I also knew I had 700 cals left for the day before reaching dinner and I was just fine expending most of them on dinner.
Dessert was a chocolate plate with fudge and chocolate almond squares. I had 3 squares of this:
MMM!
Chris’ mom gave me a digital kitchen scale, chocolates, and a little black lab ornament for Christmas 🙂 The kitchen scale is heavy duty:
Holds up to 22 lbs! No problem weighing my turkeys and roasts, I guess!!! Or HUGE batches of bread?? Hahaha. I don’t have a 9V battery, tho, so I have to wait to use it until tomorrow. I’m still kinda torn over the whole scale thing…neither one of them is exactly what I had thought of and I don’t know what to do. This was no cheap scale, either, and I feel bad she spent so much on it.
After Chris’ parents left he asked something about if I was going to mention the artwork change/if I thought he’d notice, and then he said he didn’t really want to discuss it. 😐 Great. That should be a fun discussion.
Oh, and I used my new stick vac tonight! I was super excited and whipped it out right when we got home, and I liked it 🙂 It is really easy to use, and seems to vacuum pretty well. It doesn’t have a very wide track, so if you’re trying to vacuum a large floor it may take a little while (probably not longer than sweeping), but it is great for what I need. We detached the hand vac and attacked some dust and cobwebs, and I used it not too long ago when Lily came in from outside. Yay! No more broom! Emptying the dust cup is easy, and filter seems to grab the little particles of dirt and dust well. Double yay! Chris even used it to vacuum under the dining room table and under where the couch had been when we moved it. Go honey!
Shit, it is really late all of a sudden, and I just kinda feel like putting an end to the day. I hope my traps aren’t sore tomorrow. I look forward to working out, a few good client meetings, and a good dinner. Shit, I just realized dinner will take a long time to prepare and I have a later meeting. Shit again. Tune in tomorrow to see what happens!
The Quest to be Fit 